The New York Times reported that Apple pulled down several VPN apps from its Chinese App Store. These apps are programs that allow iPhone users to bypass the Chinese government’s censorship apparatus.
Photo: Paul Hudson, flickr (CC)Apple’s silence may be tactical; the Chinese government, the conventional thinking goes, does not take well to public rebuke. Yet Apple’s quiet capitulation to tightening censorship in one of its largest markets is still a dangerous precedent.
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